Mid-morning. Carol is reading the paper and
doing the wash. You had breakfast, read the paper and are writing. – Amorella
0853 hours. Sometime during the early
morning hours I woke up lying in the chair thinking ‘pressure plates’ and
‘fusion’ and ‘double boiler’. I immediately thought ‘this is an analogy’. I
don’t see the connection other than we watched the second episode of A-bomb
series “Manhattan” last night before bed.
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A double boiler consists
of a bowl placed on top of a pan of simmering water. The bowl does not touch
the water, but creates a seal with the bottom pan to trap the steam produced by
the simmering water. The trapped steam keeps the top bowl going at just about
212F (100C), the temperature at which water turns to steam and a far lower
temperature than could be achieved by putting the bowl directly on that burner.
Inside the top bowl, you can melt chocolate without worrying that it will stick
and burn.
From – bakingbitesDOTcom
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0903
hours. I thought this combination might be useful as an analogy in a fiction
but in last Sunday’s plot episode Frank’s group was trying to prove their
theory for making an atomic bomb would be better, quicker physics through
imploding the devise. They tried a rushed experiment but it was not successful.
Not everything that pops into your head is
important in the Merlyn series, boy. You are working to incorporate the above
because it appears interesting to you not because it will fit in the story. You
should be thinking the other way around. This combination of ideas/concepts can
be used to enrich the story. – Amorella
0922 hours. Nice using “enrich” – like
in enriched uranium 234.
You are back to Oak Ridge and the Manhattan
Project, boy.
I thought it was 232 or 234. I
remember those numbers in my head. I remember Dad talking about 234 and 238 in
the 1950’s. I remember being about eleven or twelve and Dad had brought home a
small piece of radioactive material so I could work it the Geiger counter. I
took the piece and taped it to my left forearm thinking it might do me so good,
put me in a better place mentally because I was secretly mentally confused during
adolescence. I thought it would straighten out my thinking processes. It was
stupid (right where I was at the time) but I was a bit desperate to learn more
about how life really is. Funny, in a fiction I can do this and not think
myself crazy. Here I am seventy-two and still curious on what reality really
is. Somewhere along the line in this multi-yeared blog I decided that being alive is only half the
equation, that being dead is the other half. Weird, huh? But that’s the way I
feel. I don’t think I have ever connected these things before but it makes
sense in my personal view of how things are. (0939)
Mid-afternoon. Earlier you did forty
minutes of exercises then had beans and wieners for lunch while watching
“Falling Skies” and “Under the Dome”. When Carol arrived home you headed to Graeter’s for a
treat. Now you are at the far north Pine Hill Lakes Park and Carol is beginning
a new book, Tami Hoag’s Dark Horse and you are ready to return to
redoing “The Brothers” in chapter three, book two. – Amorella
1624 hours. I have been working on
Brothers 3 and suddenly I find myself using that long chess game. It was a real
game and I wanted to exploit that originally in the printed edition. I need
about a hundred words and I want to bring in Grandpa’s poem reference as well
as Merlyn as far as the game is concerned, particularly that it ends in a draw
for the twin brothers. This is a lot to accomplish in about a hundred words.
Here are the three chess references in Great Merlyn’s Ghost: One.
** **
Quite
satisfied with his spirit’s sheltered environment, Merlyn glances up beyond the
blue and sun to see the faint outline of his basic chess-squared mind-spirit weaving his continual imagination
and reasoning more tightly into a spiritual reality. It is here that Merlyn
flashes his entangled consciousness, his presence into the here-and-now of
Richard Greystone, younger twin brother of Robert. Merlyn knows Grandma Earth
and has heard her ghostly storytelling of the Greystone and Bleacher ancestors
of Richard and Robert and their wives Cyndi and Connie, also sisters but not
twins. Such connective realities with the Dead a living person rarely zooms in
on. Merlyn calls this interconnection of one’s ancestors soul-threading
and in here Grandma Earth is the Needle. The Dead share but it is in an
unseen roundabout construction to the Living.
Orndorff GMG.One, Chapter 2,
“The Dead”.
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Yermey
sits watching Ship’s vital signs on the left and his own vital signs on the
right. Friendly and Hartolite are being separately bio-tracked by Ship in
private. Yermey surmises the present situation. The
left-wingtip-cleansing-of-the-Cessna shouldn't be a problem as long as Ship
agrees. I cannot understand, imagines Yermey, why this
sterilizing-to-earth-normal operation is not completed automated at the moment
of touch. It is a matter of security. Yermey
remains poker-faced and chess-minded. The key, he surmises, is Ship records
no change in my bio-registering vitals physically, emotionally or mentally.
Though I note change. I continue to win this secret contest I have with Ship
because first and foremost, Ship does not realize he is being monitored by me.
Orndorff, GMG.One, Chapter 5,
“Diplomatic Pouch”
** **
“What do you think, Richard," rebuts Connie.
"I
thought you were both in the kitchen."
"Why,
because we're women?" quips Cyndi.
“You
guys are always in the kitchen. I’m in the kitchen too. What’s the problem?”
“When we are in the kitchen we are working
not sitting on our duffs playing chess or writing," replies Connie.
"Or
playing with our computer toys.” adds Cyndi. "You'd think you and your
brother would do more around the house. We give you lists and you never do
them. You said you were going to clean up the basement but we ended up doing
it.”
Orndorff, GMG.One, Chapter 12, “The Brothers”
** **
You do make a case for the game; now what is
important here is that the game was, in reality, a draw. Here, see how this is.
– Amorella
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Rob
looks over the sheet noting error made by each. He thinks, ‘if we were
excellent players an error by one should have won the game for the other, but
it did not.’
This
is like Merlyn using chess analogously in “The Dead” Chapter Two of GMG.One. He
is in the past and present. I wonder if Merlyn was playing the game for me? How
can I think such a thing with Merlyn a fiction? I know better. This is real
life. I am the connection to fiction not Merlyn’s entangled consciousness.’
In
a tinge of untoward thinking, Robert says, “This game is almost too cerebral
for us. I don’t think we have ever played one like it before.”
“It is like someone else was making
both our moves while we were in a deep concentration,” replies Richard with
goose bumps returning to his forearms. “Remember Grandpa’s little poem?”
“Sure,”
comments Robert, “There was a man upon the stair.”
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1801
hours. I added and edited the whole segment to about 770 words or so. Thank you
very much. I am very excited that this segment works so much better. Not
everyone will understand the chess connotations but those who play chess will.
Some might even play the game on their computer or board. Next I will work on
Grandma’s segment, then the Pouch segment if I can glean anything at all from
it.
Sounds like a plan to me, saving the Dead
segment for last. It might be an easier way to keep chapter continuity. –
Amorella
I forgot to look for a chapter word.
For
this working chapter draft how about ‘The Board’. – Amorella
Fine
with me.
Post, enjoy supper. - Amorella
2143
hours. We watched a couple DVRed
shows and the news and then I went to work going over the ePub book text that I
downloaded onto the iBook on my iPad Mini 2. It looks fine in design and I only
found three errors I made to be corrected. I do have a few questions also, so
it is on hold for publication until these small corrections can be made. I am
very pleased with BookBaby for ebook publication.
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